Network Monitoring Appliance Looks Below 1 Microsecond

eweekhickins writes "Corvil has unveiled a new tool to help network managers cope with increasing pressure to improve performance. This appliance, from the Dublin-based company (with backing from Cisco), passively monitors traffic across networks in segments below 1 microsecond in length and correlates monitoring data with remote appliances and gives a complete picture of latency, jitter, packet loss and other phenomena that affect network and application performance. Corvil CEO Donal Byrne noted that 'If you can drop a millisecond [of latency] off, you're a hero.'"

Comments

Re:and again in layman's terms??

[evil agent]

sorry if I sound stupid. It seems like greak to me.

That just about says it all...

Re:and again in layman's terms??

[Virgil Tibbs]

I did of Course mean Greek.
And that I was "used to" Wireshark.

FYI, my Greek is much worse, than my first language, English. It is even worse than French and Russian, two other languages I can speak to varying proficiency.
However, sir, I am very tired.
At the end of a long day, it is not unusual to think in straight lines while typing nonsense.
Moreover, thank you kindly sire, for asking God to help me;
I needed some guidance to help me past morons like you.

Re:You'll never go faster than the speed of light

[The Clockwork Troll]

That's why I only attend LAN parties in the vacuum of outer space.

You can get faster than the speed of light..

[Anonymous Coward]

..you just make a Pre-Cabled Domestic Wormhole..

To make your own wormhole:

1. Put your network cables inside garden hoses first as wormholes can be moist environments
2. Take two horizontal clothes washing machines and put them back to back (you can use tumble dryers but its a bit more dangerous - not wet enough)
3. Open the door on each washing machine and take out any socks or coins
4. Drill a hole through each drum and thread the garden hoses through
5. Place a teaspoon of a uranium and a tablespoon of marzipan in each drum. Close tightly!
6. Program each machine to a few seconds before the biggest spin cycle.
7. Wait for each machine to spin up
8. Pull the machines gently apart, you should see twinkling lights between them
9. Don't be tempted to play with the twinkling lights as you'll die.
10. Call UPS.
11. Give them one of the machines.
12. Tell the UPS guy not to touch the twinkling lights
13. Wait for a few days for the machine to arrive.

Propagation time: 4ms - guaranteed.

Re:Drop a millisecond

[amorsen]

You can't drop below 1ms because of the latency implied by the network equipments (just to go through their hardware takes a few milliseconds - not to mention stateful equipment such as firewalls or load balancers, etc.)

Here's a nickel, kid, go buy yourself a real firewall.